Latinos underrepresented in leadership roles on San Jose nonprofit boards, data reveals

WHEN IT COMES to sitting on a San Jose nonprofit board, Hispanics and Latinos are still being ignored — even though they are more than a third of the city’s population.

Data collected by Latinos LEAD highlights this disparity, showing that Latinos make up only 12.5 percent of nonprofit board members in the San Jose metro area, which includes Santa Clara and Sunnyvale. The underrepresentation is linked to limited access to professional networks for Latinos and a lack of targeted recruitment efforts by these organizations.